Early Learning and Character-Building

It is a well established fact that the most important years of learning begin at birth and continue through age five. During these early years, a child is capable of absorbing more information than at any other stage of development. Early learning is important for a child’s long-term learning and development. Family Care Indonesia places a special emphasis on early learning and character building through conducting early learning seminars for teachers and parents alike. Along with seminars, Family Care Indonesia offers a variety of educational and character-building materials which include children's character-building VCDs and fun packed Activity books along with a teacher’s manual explaining how to use the program. Our recent seminars for preschool teachers from PAUD (Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini) groups, which provide free education for pre-school and kindergarten age children from low income families, and which are utilizing our educational and character-building materials have been very successful. We plan to continue this seminar program in needy school districts throughout Indonesia including Jakarta. We plan to continue developing our early learning program in order to further our character-building and educational goals.

Family Care Indonesia Volunteers Sharon and Siska visit a needy Preschool (PAUD) in Jakarta to deliver a copy of STEPS along with notebooks, pencils and juice for the children. We also provided this school with a DVD machine and speakers so they can play the 20 songs that accompany the STEPS Character Building stories. Through music, students more easily remember and enjoy the themes being taught.

A regular project Family Care Indonesia has been supporting is Dolandeso in Boro, Kulon Progo outside of Yogyakarta. This is a project to give students from upper class schools the opportunity to live in a village and experience nature and learn about the simple things in life that often they are out of touch with due to the fast paced gadget filled life in society today.

Gary conducted a seminar at Rhema En Cara primary School in Sentul at a special event for the parents. Gary delivered a motivational seminar for parents covering aspects of parenting with the end goal of producing well adjusted contributing members to society with good character.

Family Care Indonesia volunteers Nicolas and Angel gathered teachers from 15 Pre-schools (PAUD) and conducted a training seminar. We gave each school a set of the STEPS Character Building books. Our team also distributed 1,000 sandals to the attending schools, nearby villages, and a few orphanages in the area.

Terry and Eve, Family Care Indonesiamembers, visited "Bukit Harapan", an orphanage for girls, where they had fun art activities & quiztimes with the children and gave a STEPS Character Building kit along with milk and snacks for all. The team also visited Minsel village where they performed a meaningful skit “The Garden”, played games and had fun quizzes for 130 children and distributed milk, and stationary packets to everyone!

Family Care Indonesia volunteers Nicolas and Cristiano continued helping orphanages in Batam and the surrounding islands as well as motivating the youth at various programs through a series of seminars.

Family Care Indonesia member Sharon joined Provisi Education in giving a training seminar along with another Indonesian trainer to 50 PAUD teachers in the small town of Kuaru, Kalimantan Timur. Sharon gave a presentation on how to teach sight-reading at an early age as well as teaching character values to PAUD students.